The Ghost Pirates William Hope Hodgson (First edition)

Science-Fiction, horror and fantastic fiction writer William Hope Hodgson uses his unique experience as a sailor, and his love of the sea, to add an air of authenticity to his work The Ghost Pirates. Everett Bleiler described the value of The Ghost Pirates in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, saying that it is ”one of the great sea novels… highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, as a work of art, it is finer.” This opinion is reaffirmed by celebrated author Robert Weinberg who said that the novel is “one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published.”